"We are always bored by the very..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Great men should not have great faults.”

“Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.”

“Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.”

“And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.”

“People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.”

“I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored”

“I'm sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired.”

“She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.”

“Every man alone is sincere.At the entrance of a second person,hypocrisy begins.We parry and fend the approachof our fellow-man by compliments,by gossip, by amusements, by affairs.We cover up our thought from himunder a hundred folds.”